Calm vs Bored - What's the difference?
calm | bored |
(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with little waves on the surface.
Without wind or storm.
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
* Bible, Mark iv. 39
To make calm.
* Dryden
To become calm.
(bore)
suffering from boredom
uninterested, without attention
perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
As adjectives the difference between calm and bored
is that calm is (of a person) peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety while bored is suffering from boredom.As verbs the difference between calm and bored
is that calm is to make calm while bored is (bore).As a noun calm
is (in a person) the state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.calm
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Adjective
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* (free from anger and anxiety) stressed, nervous, anxious * (free of noise and disturbance) disturbed * (without wind or storm) windy, stormyDerived terms
* calm as a millpond * ice-calmNoun
(en noun)- The wind ceased, and there was a great calm .
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* ice-calmVerb
(en verb)- to calm a crying baby
- to calm the passions
- to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus
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* calm down, cool off, ease, pacify, quieten, soothe, subdueAnagrams
* ----bored
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(en adjective)- The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
